The Red Hat Errata contain the most recent information about important updates, fixes, and corrections for Red Hat Linux View and access errata at http: //www redhat com/errata
(singular: erratum): An error in a printed text that comes about from transposed letters, missing lines of text, or simple typesetting errors that are the result of a printer or a printer's apprentice making an error while assembling the text on the press for printing In Ben Franklin's Autobiography, he refers to the various mistakes in his own life charmingly as "errata," and refers to his own life as a book written by God or the Deity
Information published by Red Hat describing security fixes, bug fixes, and package enhancements for Red Hat Linux The information includes the topics of the Errata, Bugzilla bug IDs, relevant releases/architectures, solutions including required RPMs, and MD5 checksums for verification Errata are also available at http: //www redhat com/errata/ Each RHN Errata Alert is based on the Red Hat Linux Errata List Security issues and bug fixes are submitted by Red Hat engineers as well as the Linux community through Bugzilla which generates a bug report for each issue Red Hat engineering evaluates the reports, resolves the bug, and generates new RPM packages After the Red Hat quality assurance team tests new packages they are placed on the Red Hat Public File Server and on the Red Hat Network Server and an Errata is generated
A list of corrections to the text or contents of a completed work, often laid in or tipped into the book as a separate slip of paper, but sometimes an entire leaf attached or bound in Errors are inevitable, and the publishers' options are, in increasing order of cost and difficulty: to do nothing (a too common practice today); next, to print and include an errata slip, indicating the error(s), its location and it's correction; next to remove the leaf or leaves in error and replace them with a cancel; and lastly, to withdraw the book and replace it with a new, more correct issue The presence of an errata slip may be a significant point in determining the priority of issue of a given book
Errata is Latin for "Ooops "[1] When software is found to have bugs, quite often the software is fixed, and released as errata Red Hat Linux is no exception to the rule; we have an Errata Web page at http: //www redhat com/errata